pros:
- fonts are amazing
- display is great. cons:
- limited features in terms of remapping key combos. listed in Issues section. mostly, are solved/workaround.
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issue: hate touch bar. no tactile feedback on touching
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solution: map caps lock to escape.
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issue: window vertical resize is missing
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solution: installed mjolnir. created few lua functions (./init.lua) to do the same. also, used it for moving windows horizontally.
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issue: ctrl, fn key positions are swapped
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solution: use karabiner. remap fn key to ctrl key. made life far better.
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issue: alt+p doesnt work in terminal
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background: in place of alt, there is command key. option key is equivalent to alt key, for mac. so need to do two things:
- swap command and option keys. solution: it can be done in keyboard prefs->modifier keys-> update option, command key mappings.
- command+p is mapped to 'print'. It cant be modified in terminal app. possible solution is to use iterm2 app but even that is complicated since apparently, cmd+p cant be remapped.
- solution: workaround. use diff key combo to backward/forward search. found command+t/g is unmapped. so used it instead.
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terminal: used novel color scheme. a little brighter than usual.
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command line editing: ctrl+a to move to beg, +e to move to end. ctrl+u to clear till beginning, +k to clear till end. option+arrows to move wordwise left/right. option+D to delete word, forward. ctrl+W to delete word backward.
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issue: key press&hold in mac doesnt repeat the key. instead, it can be configured to type something else.
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solution: disable this behaviour.
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false-> restart -
issue: migrate data from ubuntu to mac.
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solution: ssh/scp didnt work. both laptops in same network. TL/DR: install filezilla and then, copying worked.
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issue: bash autocomplete doesnt work. kubectl isnt working
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solution: bash on mac is old.
- upgrade it
- also, install xcode, macports, compile bash and bash-completion